News & Events

The LOCO project is looking for 2 PhDs and 2 Post-docs in (bio-)archaeology, history, geochemistry, and digital humanities. This joint project between VUB, KUL, and UGent looks at the mobility of people, materials, and ideas in the Low Countries. Apply before 30 April 2025.   

On 25 March 2025 - that is, today - the book Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen: Stadsgeschiedenis van Nederland en België was published. Several authors, including SHOC historian Anne Winter, recount fifty cities that were pre-eminent metropolises.

On Monday, 10 March 2025, SHOC colleague Dennis De Vriese succesfully defended his PhD theses called Selling New Ways of Selling: Legitimising Regulation and Deregulation in the Brussels Meat Market .

Ypres was one the economic powerhouses of 13th-century Europe, but most of its medieval archives were lost during the First World War.

From 2025-2027, Benoît Henriet, Associate Professor of History at VUB and member of our research group SHOC, has been appointed as the new chairholder for the Chair Casterman-Hamers: History and Philosophy of Sciences.

We are proud to announce that a new article: "From Bruges to Brexit: nationalism, neoliberalism, and the Eurosceptic capture of the British Conservative Party" has been published in Contemporary British History!

We are proud to announce that SHOC member Bas Spliet has recently published a new article in The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (TSEG). Find the article, entitled 'Plain and Old': Why Did Paintings Go out of Fashion? via this link. 

Marie-Charlotte Dubois (°2001) is joining SHOC as a PhD researcher. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in History (2022) and Master of Arts in History (2023) at KU Leuven. She is specialized in medieval history.